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Sweatshops & Cheap Labor. By: Stefanie Saflor. What are they? . “A sweat shop is a workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage or benefits, poor working conditions, and arbitrary discipline, such as verbal or physical abuse .”

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“A sweat shop is a workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage or benefits, poor working conditions, and arbitrary discipline, such as verbal or physical abuse.”

Because these workers are paid so little, they are unable to save enough money to improve their lives, and are thus trapped in a cycle of exploitation.

With sweatshops comes the issue of child labor. The International Labor Organization estimates that about “250 million children younger then the age of fifteen are subjected to work in such conditions.”

Many factories utilized by the United States are located in China. Although having goods produced in foreign countries does decrease the overall selling price of a product, organizations dedicated to overseeing working conditions and standards within these factories, such as The Fair Labor Association have become responsible for regulating these factories.

Even though these factories increased the production rate and shaped the American Economy, the lack of regulations and workers’ rights when factories first started to develop mimic the structure of today’s sweatshops.

• 500 workers, mostly young women, constantly worked at sewing machines, yet earned less then 3 dollars per week

• Because the factory was above the sixth floor, the maximum height firefighters’ ladders reached, women had to jump from the windows, especially since the “owners’ way” into the building had been locked due to unwanted theft and security reasons